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Coordinates | 37°20′N 28°06′E / 37.33°N 28.1°E |
Status | Operational |
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Yatağan Power Station is a coal-fired power station in Turkey in Yatağan, Muğla Province in the south-west of the country. Currently owned by Aydem Enerji [1] it has a 120m chimney. Yatağan thermal power plant consumes 5.4 million tons of coal from mines such as Turgut [2] and can produce 3,780 GWh annually, the least productive power station in Turkey. [3] The area is a sulfur dioxide air pollution hotspot [4] and as of 2017 [update] the air pollution caused by Yatağan and neighboring Kemerköy power station and Yeniköy power station is estimated to have caused 45,000 premature deaths. [5] It is estimated that closing the plant by 2030, instead of when its licence ends in 2063, would prevent over 9000 premature deaths. [6] Two workers were killed in 2018 and the plant's safety has been criticized by the Chamber of Engineers. [7]
In 2018 the plant received 70 million lira capacity payments, [8] and 94 million lira in 2019. [9] In 2019 local people protested against 48 villages being destroyed by expansion of the mine feeding the plant. [10] Opponents of the coal mining also claim it threatens the ancient city of Lagina. [11] İklim Değişikliği Politika ve Araştırma Derneği (Climate Change Policy and Research Association) said that the plant was given a 5 year licence despite not having rehabilitated former ash storage landfill. [12]: 79